Appleton adopts ban on sex-identity bias in housing

12:19 PM,
Sep. 6, 2013

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Appleton has added its name to a list of cities adopting new housing rules that push past federal protection on gender identity.

Seventeen states and 160 cities and counties nationwide prohibit housing discrimination based on both sexual orientation and gender identity, where individuals identify or present as male or female, regardless of the sex assigned at birth, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Transgender Law and Policy Institute.

Appleton is the third city in Wisconsin, following Madison and Milwaukee, to adopt the rule. ...